George Herbert Scutt 1911-ca 1978

Hull Daily Mail, East Riding of Yorkshire, Saturday 19 September 1942. Startled Horse. A verdict of Misadventure "was recorded at Goole. George Henry Windle, aged 46, of Westfield Square, Goole, who was run over by a coal dray in the railway station yard at Goole on Saturday, after his horse had bolted. He died in hospital later the same day from shock and bleeding, following penetration of the lung by fractured ribs. George Herbert Scutt, coal foreman, Westbourne Grove, Goole, employed by Goole Co-operative Society, said Windle was holding bags on the dray for another man to fill with coal. "I looked up" said Scutt, "and saw that the horse was bolting. I jumped to get to the horse's head, and Windle was on one knee on the dray with one foot on the shafts, trying to reach down to get the reins. I had to let go, and the horse crashed into a wall. I then learned that Windle had fallen off the dray." Replying to the coroner (Mr W. Bentley), Scutt said the horse was high spirited, but had shown no signs of vice before Henry Worth, coal deliverer. Hook, said the horse was startled by a bag of coal which fell near it.